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FreeNAS  - Putting that old hardware to work It seems that every technology junkie has a stash of old hardware and devices. W hat to do with these old systems seem to be the ever popular question.  There is a direct proportion between the usefulness of hardware and it's age.  The older that hardware the less flexible your options until you end up recycling or  upcycling  it (hopefully you are not tossing your old hardware in the dump ) Well this junkie is no different - In going through some I have had sitting in a corner for a few years I found a couple of old desktops systems.  One of these was my a circa 2005 Windows XP machine. Sweet - Now what to do with it?  I can run um..well .... XP?  Linux?  But really what can I do  with it?   Then, as another disk full notification from Time Machine displays on the screen, the beginnings of a cunning plan start to form -- this system is perfect for a home NAS device.   I know - I can purchase an off-the-shelf NAS device  in a s

This is a handy post to help you take advantage of the Apple OSX Color Palette and saving your favorite colors.  This works in Mavericks as well as across a healthy compliment of Apple applications How to manage Apple color panel favorites in OS X - CNET

Copernic Desktop Search (Win) is a great tool to index all of your critical files and make them easily accessible, it even works with Lotus Notes.  However it is unable to index Notes archive files. The following is a technique to be make the data in those archives accessible to a Copernic Query. 1. File – Location – Manage Locations 2. Create a new location – Called 'Archive' 3.  In the tab MAIL, go to mail file 4. In the Mail File, put your archive mail folder However, you need to make sure the credentials allow you to access that archive file. If you do not have permission to access the archive, the software will not index those emails. Good Luck, -TheJunkie

It is inevitable. At some point we will get locked out of our iPhone. This simple process from TechniPages.com can quickly and easily get you on your way again. Be warned you will need to wipe the device, but hopefully you have a backup. If not, first thing you may want to consider once you get back into your iPhone is to configure iTunes to backup your iP*.* cheers!  -TheJunkie  http://bit.ly/Xvhy4i

So the way the Junkie funds addiction is with a day job.  During the day, I find myself on many occasions commenting on or looking at a web page, screen mockup or graphic and wanting to comment / annotate in some form.  Enter Skitch. Skitch  enables a user to capture an image, or open a document, not for editing in the traditional sense, but rather as a canvas upon which free hand drawing, text, boxes, circles and arrows to name just a few.  It can be used to markup, comment and create something all your own.   At the JunkieZone we utilize Skitch Plus to create just about all of the screen captures (except the screen shots of Skitch Plus itself, for that we used Jing - Which could probably lead to esoteric Use Case conversation with an R&D team.)  Skitch is a great application for annotating just about anything.  It also works with tablets and smoothes and straightens free handed lines to give them a professional look and feel.   The graphic tool set is basic if compared

Are your passwords on this list ?  If so you will probably want to change them.... The frightening thing about this list is that there are at least a third of them I remember preaching against their use in the mid 90s when I was schleppin' a bag around the country trying to raise awareness for sloppy InfoSec practices.  Really??  After all this time people are still using the same ones??? You may think you have nothing valuable to protect with that password...that may be true, but I find it unlikely.  At a significantly increasing rate, our lives are intertwined with our inbox ( check out this post to learn more out our email usage in general ) Here are some things to think about with regard to your email and why it is important to keep this data secure.  Does your email contain any of the following...  Financial statements Medial information Sensitive information about a loved one Emails from that special person in our life So you may think that having t